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Approval for Clinton dropping, poll says
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Americans want President Clinton to spend his time on problems at home rather than troubles overseas, says an opinion survey released yesterday.
The poll found Americans deeply disturbed by the way things are going at home and abroad. Their backing for Clinton and his policies — domestic as well as foreign — dropped after the deaths of 18 American soldiers in Somalia.
The survey by Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press includes results from interviews with a population sample of 3,200 as well as with 649 people identified as leaders in nine areas—the media, business, culture, state and local government, religion, academia, foreign affairs defense and security, and science and engineering.
The survey reported the responses from what it called "America's influences" by each group. It did not combine them.
The center conducted telephone interviews with 2,000 people in the sample of the general public between Sept. 9-15. The results have a margin of error of 2 percent, meaning the figures could be off by that much in either direction. Another 1,200 people were interviewed between Oct. 21-24 to get a reading on the impact of the violence in Somalia. The margin of error on those interviews was 3 percent.
After the deaths in Somalia, 44 percent said they approved of Clinton's
job performance, and 42 percent said they disapproved. A month earlier, 49 percent approved and 35 percent disapproved.
Support for Clinton's health and economic proposals also dropped. On health care reform, support went from 53 percent in mid-September to 41 percent in mid-October. Opposition during the same period went from 25 percent to 37 percent.
Andrew Kohut, director of the center, said the figures suggested that "when people get down on the president on foreign policy, it spills over."
A 76 percent majority want Clinton to concentrate on domestic policy; only 13 percent on foreign policy.
Reflecting the same inward-looking trend, the public's top foreign policy goal was "protecting the jobs of American workers." Ranking second was preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, which was the top goal of all nine groups of leaders.
In several instances, the opinions of the general public differed markedly from those of the influentials.
One of the sharpest differences was on the question of whether U.S. forces should serve under United Nations command. A majority of each group of influentials supported that idea. Only 25 percent of the general public approved.
The public is closely divided on the North American Free Trade Agreement with 46 percent in favor and 42 percent opposed. By contrast, every group of the influentials was overwhelmingly in favor of NAFTA.
Haitian military gives no response to U.N. plea
The Associated Press
PORT-AU.PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti's military, having blocked the return of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, has not responded to a U.N. request for new talks on reinstating the ousted leader, U.S. and U.N. officials said yesterday.
The United Nations, trying to keep a moribund peace process alive, hopes to convene the talks by Wednesday.
Haitian rightists have demanded that new political negotiations begin without the major players in the last round of talks: U.N. mediator Dante Caputo, Aristide and the army commander, Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras.
But the United States, which stationed a new warship carrying 650 Marines off Haiti on Sunday, said the rightists had no right to demand that the three men resisit.
"This country already has a government," U.S. Embassy spokesman Stanley Schrager said. "It has
a democratically elected president and a constitutional government recognized by the international community."
The rightists, few in number but traditionally powerful, were buoyed that their acts of intimidation kept Aristide from returning by Oct. 30, the deadline under the U.N. plan Aristide and Cedras signed in July. The United Nations wants to hold new talks with an Aristide representative, Cedras and the presidents of Haiti's two houses of Parliament beginning Wednesday.
A. U.N. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the military was the only party not to accept the United Nations' invitation. Yesterday was the first day of a two-day holiday commemorating Haiti's dead, and senior military officials were not available for comment.
Schrager also said that the military had not responded, but that negotiators were preparing for a meeting in the capital. Port-au-Prince anyway.
Premier Robert Malval, appointed by Aristide.
said he would represent the exiled president if asked.
The rightists have demanded Malval's resignation. The most powerful of the small right-wing movements is the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti, a new group whose acts of violence have shut down the capital several times in recent weeks.
Throughout the hemisphere's poorest nation, many Haitians followed the holiday tradition of visiting cemeteries to offer food and drink to deceased ancestors. But Jean-Claude Baltazal, selling candles for 8 cents a piece at the capital's main cemetery, was not participating.
Watching the grave sites at dawn, the skinny man, who looked much older than his 35 years, spoke softly, but his message was clear.
"I am hungry because I live," he said. "They are not hungry."
U.S. troops dig in outside Mogadishu to keep low profile
The Associated Press
They hope to spend a quiet few months just outside Mogadishu. If they're lucky, they'll leave a peaceful Somalia by March 31. If they're not, they'll be called in to back up U.N. troops in trouble.
$ ^{12} $ MOGADISHU, Somalia — American reinforcements moved into their new home yesterday, a featureless sprawl of desert scrub dubbed Victory Base.
But while Oakley was looking for political solutions, U.S. reinforcements were thinking of military ones. They packed weapons, ammunition, duffle bags, cookwear, folding chairs and other equipment on to 400 vehicles for the 12-mile journey from
Mogadishu to Victory Base.
13 President Clinton's special envoy to Somalia, Robert Oakley, arrived yesterday to try to promote a political settlement to the country's clan warfare. He is expected to leave Thursday to drum up support among East African leaders for an "African solution" to the crisis.
The troops and vehicles made the trip in 11 groups, winding along a route that military engineers completed only days earlier.
"We're going to be sucking a lot of dust," one soldier said of the road, which is only about halfway paved.
Pitted buildings and bits of garbage lined the right side of the road and the deep blue of the Indian Ocean churned into surf on the left. Six U.S. warships — the amphibious home to fighter jets and Marines still waiting offshore — were barely visible on the horizon.
For many of the soldiers, this was their first glimpse of Mogadishu's scarred and chaotic streets.
Their glimpse was just that: The route was chosen so it passed only on the barest edge of the city. Many of the people they saw were picking through mounds of military refuse.
Victory Base is far enough away as to be almost unobtrusive to most city residents at a time when the United Nations is trying to avoid confrontation with the locals. But it's close enough that Abrams tanks and Bradley troop carriers can roar in quickly in an emergency, trampling their way cross-country if roads are blocked.
There was little there other than hardy shrubs and the battered walls of several roofless buildings when the troops arrived.
Within hours, tents were up and security patrols organized. Sledgehammers battered new doors in the buildings. Trucks hauled away loads of dry brush.
The American soldiers had a brief alarm when an explosion sent thick smoke into the sky nearby. Thinking it was a mortar attack, they quickly checked by radio. No, they were told, it was just a weapons-disposal team blowing up an 82mm shell they had found.
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